Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:31:23 -0500 From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: "Erik Norgaard" <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which live CD for recovery Message-ID: <226ae0c60612061231i3f5a93actc6645034be5783b@mail.gmail.com>
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> Which live CD is recommended for recovery? What I'd like is to have as > many disk analysis tools at hand just in case. There are a lot to choose from, as you can see from this list: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php > I believe one of two things has happened: the anti virus placed a system > file in the vault, or running windows update the "genuine windows > disadvantage tool" disabled the system because it may have been pirate > (don't know). AFAIK the Windows Genuine Advantage never prevents you from booting your machine. It will annoy you with pop-ups about your license (or lack of it). Fortunately, you can disable the pop-ups. Keep in mind that a non-legit Windows machine can only perform the Security updates, but cannot perform the other Windows Updates. This can be confusing for a technologically challenged user. > So, I need to recover data to some other machine, and then see if I can > recover the system file without a full reinstall. Do you have a USB drive? Can you mount it on the crippled Windows Box? If so, then I would suggest that you backup the user's data, format the crippled box's disk drive and do a clean Windows install. After all, there probably was a virus on this box. Are you sure you want to take chances? Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
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